This poetess tells us that she had turned into her French rhymedverse the Aesopian Fables, which one of our kings had translated into English from the Latin.
It is a nice question to decide how far history may be admitted into poetry; like "Addison's Campaign," the poem may end in a rhymed gazette.
Voltaire says that the English pronounce true as if it rhymed with view, and this is the sound our rustics give to it.
I adore poetry," said the King, who had himself written a rhymed couplet which could be said either forwards or backwards, and in the latter position was useful for removing enchantments.
An admirable sentiment which Roger Scurvilegs would have approved, although he could not have rhymed it so neatly.
Thus in his blank verse Surrey was the forerunner of Milton, and in his rhymed pentameter couplet one of the heralds of Dryden and Pope.
And here we must pause to say that in the literary structure, language, and rhythm of the poem, Dryden had made a great step toward that mastery of the rhymed pentameter couplet, which is one of his greatest claims to distinction.
When the great battle of Blenheim was fought, in 1704, he at once published an artificial poem called The Campaign, which has received the fitting name of the Rhymed Despatch.
In the meanwhile, the old rhymed moral treatises continued in force and gave rise to compositions of a more regular structure.
The oldest recorded rhymed chronicle of this kind is the one that tells of the blood bath instituted in the Ukraine in the middle of last century.
An opportunity for more extended themes was given the badchens in their songs of contemplation, in which the moralizing tendency needed only to be developed at the expense of the allegory, in order to change the song into a rhymed sermon.
We notice, also, that it is rhymed in couplets, that is, every two lines are rhymed together.
This was injudiciously imitated by the English tragic poets of a later date; they suddenly elevated the tone in the rhymed lines, as if the person began all at once to speak in another language.
In these cases he has even introduced rhymed strophes, which approach to the form of the sonnet, then usual in England.
Yet we must not proceed upon the principle of trying how the thought appears after it is deprived of the resemblance in sound, any more than we are to endeavor to feel the charm of rhymed versification after depriving it of its rhyme.
For one thing, the rhymed advertisement is more common now than ever before.
Mankind cannot be restrained, it seems, from the attempt to interpret all poetry as rhymed autobiography.
One objection to this method is that it produces, as you see, a rhymed couplet in the midst of the sestet.
In rhymed verse two lines which complete a meaning in themselves are particularly known as a couplet.
The epic, written in a very dreary and turgid manner, but in good rhymed heroic verse, deals with the adventures of King David from his boyhood to the smiting of Amalek by Saul, where it abruptly closes.
The normal type, as it may almost be called, of English versification is the metre of ten-syllabled rhymed lines designated as heroic couplet.
This signification of the word couplet is not unknown in England, but it is not customary; it is probably used in a stricter and a more technical sense to describe a pair of rhymed lines, whether serious or merry.
As they stand, the three first lines are rhymed together, and there is no rhyme to the fourth.
It is worth while to add that the next five lines, contrary to the common usage of our poem, are all rhymed together.
Whenever he had nothing better to do, he would exchange rhymed epigrams with Algarotti, or discuss the Jewish religion with d'Argens, or write long improper poems about Darget, in the style of La Pucelle.
Upon English ears the rhymed couplets of Racine sound strangely; and how many besides Mr. Bailey have dubbed his alexandrines 'monotonous'!
Discussing the imputed unnaturalness of the rhymed 'repartee' he says: 'Suppose we acknowledge it: how comes this confederacy to be more displeasing to you than in a dance which is well contrived?
Account-books, directions for household administration, and in the fifteenth century very curious rhymed rules of behaviour and of precedence are available.
Ottava rima is composed of eight iambic pentameter verses with alternate rhymes, except the last two lines, which form a rhymed couplet.
Blank verse has greater freedom than rhymed verse, but the attainment of a high degree of excellence in it is scarcely less difficult.
This poem is, in a measure, an anticipation of the rhymed romances of Scott, and is full of picturesque description and spirit-stirring adventure.
And here's your old friend, the identical bard Who has rhymed and recited you verse by the yard Since the days of the empire of Andrew the First Till you 're full to the brim and feel ready to burst.
It was written like Barlow's poem, in rhymed couplets, and the patriotic impulse of the time shows oddly in the introduction of our Revolutionary War, by way of episode, among the wars of Israel.
It was now displaced by the smooth metrical verse with rhymed endings, which the French introduced and which our modern poets use, a verse fitted to be recited rather than sung.
The immense single-rhymed laisses, sometimes extending to several pages of verse, still roll rhyme after rhyme with the same sound upon the ear.
Historians have, however, very properly noted in him the occurrence of a short lyrical fragment in irregular octosyllabics, each rhymed in couplets and interspersed after every line with a refrain.
The third is mono-rhymed throughout, the lines being disyllabic with licence to extend.
The rhymed couplets of this poem are composed of shorter lines than those of Havelok.
He cites Chaucer, who had depicted very low life indeed, and in the same rhymed metre.
